Monday, May 19, 2014

This howto is about installing firebird ruby driver on Ubuntu or any Debian based distro
you might need some firebird dependencies and if you need the stable Firebird server Firebird 2.5 guide to install it

The very basic firebird package to build only the driver is firebird2.5-dev

sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-dev git-core

and choose yes when asked
Then you need to install ruby and the recommended rails way is to use rbenv

rbenv install 2.1.2
rbenv global 2.1.2
ruby -v

Best way is to install it from gem

gem install fb

Alternate way is to build install our gem (latest build-able is located here )